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2015/10/30 10:47:27
Moshkito
craigb
He doesn't like to wear dresses in public Pedro.



Excuse me? WARLOCKS wear ROBES, not dresses!
2015/10/30 13:47:23
craigb
No wit Warlock.
2015/10/30 13:53:13
jamesg1213
Moshkito
Hi,
 

 
Every time I see this I get shivers ... over the hills and far away, we will bury you, and forget you, like the plants ... the roses all look the same after all, and tomorrow another dog, will sniff at the spot, and a cow will step over it ... and then, of all things, tomorrow the snow comes, and we will be buried further still ... we can always imagine our next gig ... the words barely coming out of all the slobber ... but the notes were there ... were they in order? ... while the old song ... was heard ... over the hills and far away ... feeling like it was buried ... somewhere ... in the back of our soul ...

I feel like putting together a poem ... but goodness ... it would sound so damn scary and weird ... it must be Halloween! I'm surprised that Craig didn't dress you up!


 
I've buried quite a few animals in that field. I even waited till they were dead.
 
2015/10/30 14:12:18
kennywtelejazz
TheMaartian
ohgrant
... I guess it was never in my plans to live this long.

I always assumed that I would go the way of Jimi and Janis...but didn't. So, now what? Might as well go for old!




+1 , I was around for Jimi and Janis … Was hitting my early teen years at the time .
The peers I had back then thought people over the age of 30 were to be avoided at all costs ..
I stuck around long enough to have changed my tune on that one  
 
craigb
ohgrant
The thing that bothers me the most about getting older is how fast time passes now. 



This!  I no longer have to wait and wait and wait for the weekend.  It arrives very quick and, even faster, is gone... 




Yes , It feels like somebody speed up my life to 2 X speed in all areas except for one.
It appears that time happens to slow down to 1/2 speed when I'm waiting for the check to come in the mail .
 
BobF
craigb
ohgrant
The thing that bothers me the most about getting older is how fast time passes now. 



This!  I no longer have to wait and wait and wait for the weekend.  It arrives very quick and, even faster, is gone... 




No kidding.  Seems like I have to fill my weekly pill box every 3 days!




@Bob 
 
Have you considered the possibility that you may be double dosing it on the pills by accident because you are getting old and you forgot you took your pills the first time ?  How do I know this could happen ?  don't ask 
 
Kenny
 
 
2015/10/30 15:35:38
Danny Danzi
kennywtelejazz
The reading glasses thing was an easy one to adapt too and I've been there for about 10 years and counting …
Getting gray , I'm OK with that even though the tree line is thinning out a little on top of old smokey …
One change that is effing me up the most is I used to have a nice round butt that used to hold my pants up just fine.
Now the thing decided to get flat and move over to the front where my stomach is  
I'm like WTF …I'm way to young to be wearing  suspenders …
 
Kenny

 
LOL Kenny, I'm sitting here cracking up at this thread and where it's gone. :) I can relate on the butt thing....it's probably because we sit at our computers for too long! LOL! I always got told "you got a perfect butt for a dude" (whatever that means) because when I sat in a chair, it left little heart prints. LOL! Now that I'm getting older and I've been smoke free for almost 3 years, the ole butt just ain't what it used to be. Hahaha! I wear those one size fits all sports pants...they seems to be perfect for butts that become tenants in our stomachs! ;)
 
Rain
I made peace with the notion of wearing glasses, even though I recently had to get a second pair, this one for reading.
 
Up until my late 30's, I was blessed (or cursed) with an extremely fast metabolism. No matter what I did, I never gained weight. Then I quit smoking and turned 40. And I have to work a lot harder not to put on weight, even if I have a most healthy diet and workout an hour a day every day.
 
The hairline IS receding, but I can't say that I'm too worried about it.
 
But you know what my pet peeve is? Hair in spots where there used to be none. I even bought my own tweezers a few years ago (too bad I couldn't find zircon encrusted ones).
 
And hair in those spot seem to grow thicker and quicker all the time.
 
One of the worst spot is just around the ear hole - those drive me nut, though they're easy to pluck.
Top of the ear - some long ones grow there... Thin enough but that spot is surprisingly sensitive.
Nostrils. Thick as heck and driving me crazy. First couple of times were painful but my nostrils are now immune to pain for the most part.
 
Shoulders and back. Why oh why? I leave the pleasure to my lovely lady who loves to pluck them.
 
BTW, suspenders are cool. They've been a part of my attire for well over 10 years. Love them. :)



Rain...man, this is me to the T! Fast metab still thank God, can relate to what happens after quitting the cigs, (I've gained 12 lbs...but so far it's been better for me. I was 146, so 158 makes me look and feel a little less scrawny lol) I use reading glasses and the hair thing.....dude, let's just say, we all need to embrace man-scaping because it is the in thing today anyway. That "No No" thing is pretty killer. If you can't afford one at like $250, there's a "Yes" for $40 that does the same thing. LOL!!! It actually keeps hair from coming back in those places where you never dreamed of getting it. After 4-6 times, it gets less and less.
 
I've always hated hair on the back on my triceps....I never had much, but still never liked seeing anything there. That Yes thing.....5 times, it's not grown back. Hair anywhere you don't want it....5-6 times and it gets thinner and thinner and comes back super slow.
 
For Susan: Yeah, our eyes are definitely getting worse...but I'm going to challenge you with something. If you have time, try this and you'll see I'm not crazy. Ok, well I am a little...but....lol....
 
One day, I was cleaning my basement up. I found magazines from the 80's. Music mags, car mags, old books etc. Upon examining them, one thing jumped out at me that I have never noticed......
 
The fonts were WAY bigger! Today, they jam and cram as much as they can in a book or magazine. There are less pages and smaller text. This keeps costs down. So it's not just that we are losing our vision.....we are losing text size as well. Do you have any old mags? See how well you can read them without any glasses or magnifying glasses.
 
Here's another. I'm in a Chinese restaurant with my girl. The menu there even has small text. She's laughing at me telling me I need glasses because she's a bit younger than me. I do something simple that changes the game. Yeah, ok....I'm losing my vision but I have quite a few things against me as I approach my 50's....text size and......darkness! I turn on my cell phone flashlight, and low and behold....I can see the menu clearly! I don't seem to remember ordering food in the darkness years ago. Probably because years ago, the economy was good and the restaurants were nice looking. Now that they are older and the economy is crappy for most people, they dim the lights so you can't see what the place looks like. It's not just there, but I notice this everywhere I go, even the 5-star joints that end up costing me $400 for me and my girl.
 
I learned this when I was doing side remodeling jobs with my cousin at Denny's, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Carraba's, Outback Steakhouse, Longhorn Steakhouse etc. What you see when those lights are bright...will scare the heck out of you. Dim those lights....it's like you are in a completely different establishment. So yeah, we may be losing our vision a bit....but we are getting help and are being tricked into believing we're worse off than we are.
 
Last thing Susan....I just looked at one of my old cable boxes that Comcast never took back. I can read the serial number without glasses. I just looked at my current one....it looks like ants ran through mud and walked all over it. I needed a magnifying glass to read it. You're fine, trust me. :)
 
-Danny
2015/10/30 16:08:20
sharke
I have this one freak eyebrow hair that gets about 2 inches long if I leave it. Never had that when I was younger.

Skin gets less elastic too. There's the classic test where you pinch a bit of skin on the top of your hand and watch it snap back - I remember doing this in my 20's and you couldn't even see it move it was so fast. Now I see a noticeable lag - it still snaps back fast but I can see it moving.
2015/10/30 16:16:18
craigb
sharke
I have this one freak eyebrow hair that gets about 2 inches long if I leave it. 



That may be useful when the time comes for a comb-over Sharke. 
2015/10/30 23:23:49
kennywtelejazz
 
Susan G
kennywtelejazz
Susan G
One of the times it hits me hardest is when I have to get down on my hands and knees (like last night, to read the teeny, tiny serial # upside down off the bottom of my malfunctioning cable box so I could give it to Comcast TS.) I told my friend, "If I'm not back in 15 minutes, come & get me."
 
Then there's the part where I couldn't quite read it with or without my glasses, so I kind of guessed...
 
-Susan



 
Hi Susan , 
 
My vision is normal for every day activities except for reading . 
Yes , I know how that feels when something like that happens . Even if I'm not on all fours , it gets a little frustrating to be wearing a set of reading glasses and having to decipher what it is I'm supposed to be reading .

 
Hi Kenny-
 
I was talking more about how much more difficult it is nowadays to get up from the floor (kneeling or sitting) to a standing position. The vision thing was more of an afterthought!
 
-Susan


 
Hi Susan , I think I get what you are saying 
 
 

 
Good Dog 

 
 

Bad Dog 
 
Kenny
2015/10/30 23:31:59
craigb
Good dog!
2015/10/31 04:41:56
kennywtelejazz

 
Kenny
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